Re: Chinese/Russian/N.K. Casualty

["DONALD KILMER" <donskil@msn.com>]

If anyone is interested in an attempt to estimate the number
of people murdered by the North Korean regime, Prof. Rummel's
site on genocide (or "democide" - see link below)is worth
looking at.  He estimates that between 1945 and 1987
the communists killed about 1.7 million Koreans, of whom
about 1.3 million were "domestic" victims and .4 million
were South Korean civilians killed in the course of the Korean War.
This does not include the hundreds of thousands estimated to
have been starved to death or executed for trying to escape in
more recent years.

It is curious that however much the Koreans may rail against the
Japanese, it turns out that the Kim Il-song dynasty has been far
more deadly to the Korean people than were the Japanese.  Prof
Rummel's estimate of the number of Koreans killed by the Japanese
during 1937-1945 is less than half of the number killed by the
Korean communists.

Regards,
Don

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>From: <Jhk789@aol.com>
>Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
>Subject: Re: Chinese/Russian/N.K. Casualty
>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 20:24:38 EST
>
>In a message dated 2/14/2002 5:18:13 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>GRBroman@aol.com writes:
>
>
> > Care to explain the massacres that the North inflicted on the civilian
> > population on the South after the invasion?
>
>Glen,
>
>Most of the N.Korean massacres later turned out to be
>carried out by the South. A good example of this is the
>7,000 massacre at Daejon that was atributed to N.Koreans
>by US military history. It is now clear that those murdered
>were S.Korean political prisoners killed by Rhee's police
>and military, observed by US military attache who took
>pictures of the killing and sent a secret report to Joint Chief
>of Staffs. I am sure there may have been some killing by the North,
>but not in large scale. If you have a better info on this, please let me 
>know.
>
>John2




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